The Riven Journals works best in the following Macintosh browsers:
- Netscape Navigator 3.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01a
The site uses inline audio and 24-bit color. Be sure to connect speakers or headphones if available, and set your system's display to the greatest available color depth (Thousands or Millions of colors are best).
The optimum Macintosh configuration for this site is Navigator with Java, JavaScript and the LiveAudio plugin enabled, and with as much memory as possible allocated to the application.
Netscape requires about 18 MB of RAM to load and run the puzzle applets properly.
The only disadvantage of using Explorer for this site is missing some of the JavaScript enhancements: image rollovers and status info for some of the links. On the other hand, Explorer requires far less memory than Navigator and users with slow connections will appreciate being able to easily enable/disable built-in inline audio.
The most frequent causes of problems with the puzzle applets for Macintosh users are:
- Not enough memory allocated to browser
Quit the application and increase its preferred size in its Get Info window.
Netscape needs 18 MB, MSIE should be OK with 10 MB.- Downloads timing out
If downloading applet components takes too much time, the browser may stop loading and show an error message. If this happens, it is best to quit the application and re-launch before returning to the puzzle page.
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